ABSTRACT
“The strength of the hills is His also.” On September 18, 1938, toward early sunset, I stood before the Middlebury College Mead Memorial Chapel and read this Biblical inscription (Psalms, 95:4) chiseled in marble across the facade of its portico. The chapel, a Greek classical structure with six marble columns across the porti co, was topped by a white New England meeting house steeple reaching toward heaven. In its Biblical emblem, mixed architecture, and Vermont setting, the chapel embodied perfectly the Congre gational Calvinist origins of Middlebury College in 1800, as evolved into a modern, rural, New England liberal arts college.
